Server Routes

There are two types of routes in Sapper: pages and server routes. According to official documentation, “Pages are Svelte components written in .svelte files. A user is first served a server-rendered version of the route in question and a client-side router is initialized. Afterward, navigation is entirely handled by the client.” However, in this lesson, we will focus on the functionalities of server routes.

Server routes in Sapper

A server route exports functions corresponding to HTTP methods (GET, POST, etc.) and allows us to create JSON APIs without needing to deploy a separate REST API service. Server routes require a Sapper server to run. In this course, we will focus on a static site generated by Sapper and will not use server routes.